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A J P Taylor Quotes

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction Picture Quote #1

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves Picture Quote #1

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next? Picture Quote #1

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work Picture Quote #1

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism `inevitably` caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914 Picture Quote #1

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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction (A J P Taylor Quotes) Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves (A J P Taylor Quotes) I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next? (A J P Taylor Quotes) History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work (A J P Taylor Quotes) Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism `inevitably` caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914 (A J P Taylor Quotes)

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